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The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. The Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.
Secretaries of the Interior
| No. |
Name |
Term of Office |
President(s) served under |
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| 1 | Thomas Ewing | March 8, 1849 - July 22, 1850 | Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore |
| 2 | Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan | August 15, 1850 - August 26, 1850 | Millard Fillmore |
| 3 | Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | September 14, 1850 - March 7, 1853 | Millard Fillmore |
| 4 | Robert McClelland | March 8, 1853 - March 9, 1857 | Franklin Pierce |
| 5 | Jacob Thompson | March 10, 1857 - January 8, 1861 | James Buchanan |
| 6 | Caleb Blood Smith | March 5, 1861 - December 31, 1862 | Abraham Lincoln |
| 7 | John Palmer Usher | January 1, 1863 - May 15, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln |
| 8 | James Harlan | May 16, 1865 - August 31, 1866 | Andrew Johnson |
| 9 | Orville Hickman Browning | September 1, 1866 - March 4, 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
| 10 | Jacob Dolson Cox | March 5, 1869 - October 31, 1870 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 11 | Columbus Delano | November 1, 1870 - September 30, 1875 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 12 | Zachariah Chandler | October 19, 1875 - March 11, 1877 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| 13 | Carl Schurz | March 12, 1877 - March 7, 1881 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| 14 | Samuel J. Kirkwood | March 8, 1881 - April 17, 1882 | James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur |
| 15 | Henry Moore Teller | April 18, 1882 - March 3, 1885 | Chester A. Arthur |
| 16 | L.Q.C. Lamar | March 6, 1885 - January 10, 1888 | Grover Cleveland |
| 17 | William Freeman Vilas | January 16, 1888 - March 6, 1889 | Grover Cleveland |
| 18 | John Willock Noble | March 7, 1889 - March 6, 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| 19 | M. Hoke Smith | March 6, 1893 - September 1, 1896 | Grover Cleveland |
| 20 | David Rowland Francis | September 3, 1896 - March 5, 1897 | Grover Cleveland |
| 21 | Cornelius Newton Bliss | March 6, 1897 - February 19, 1899 | William McKinley |
| 22 | Ethan Allen Hitchcock | February 20, 1899 - March 4, 1907 | William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt |
| 23 | James Rudolph Garfield | March 5, 1907 - March 5, 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft |
| 24 | Richard Achilles Ballinger | March 6, 1909 - March 12, 1911 | William Howard Taft |
| 25 | Walter Lowrie Fisher | March 13, 1911 - March 5, 1913 | William Howard Taft |
| 26 | Franklin Knight Lane | March 6, 1913 - February 29, 1920 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 27 | John Barton Payne | March 15, 1920 - March 4, 1921 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 28 | Albert Bacon Fall | March 5, 1921 - March 4, 1923 | Warren G. Harding |
| 29 | Hubert Work | March 5, 1923 - July 24, 1928 | Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge |
| 30 | Roy Owen West | July 25, 1928 - March 4, 1929 | Calvin Coolidge |
| 31 | Ray Lyman Wilbur | March 5, 1929 - March 4, 1933 | Herbert Hoover |
| 32 | Harold LeClair Ickes | March 4, 1933 - February 15, 1946 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman |
| 33 | Julius Albert Krug | March 18, 1946 - December 1, 1949 | Harry S. Truman |
| 34 | Oscar Littleton Chapman | December 1, 1949 - January 20, 1953 | Harry S. Truman |
| 35 | Douglas McKay | January 21, 1953 - April 15, 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 36 | Fred Andrew Seaton | June 8, 1956 - January 20, 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 37 | Stewart Lee Udall | January 21, 1961 - January 20, 1969 | John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson |
| 38 | Walter J. Hickel | January 24, 1969 - November 25, 1970 | Richard Nixon |
| 39 | Rogers Clark Ballard Morton | January 29, 1971 - April 30, 1975 | Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford |
| 40 | Stanley K. Hathaway | June 12, 1975 - October 9, 1975 | Gerald Ford |
| 41 | Thomas Savig Kleppe | October 17, 1975 - January 20, 1977 | Gerald Ford |
| 42 | Cecil D. Andrus | January 23, 1977 - January 20, 1981 | Jimmy Carter |
| 43 | James G. Watt | January 23, 1981 - November 8, 1983 | Ronald Reagan |
| 44 | William Patrick Clark | November 18, 1983 - February 7, 1985 | Ronald Reagan |
| 45 | Donald Paul Hodel | February 8, 1985 - January 20, 1989 | Ronald Reagan |
| 46 | Manuel Lujan, Jr. | February 3, 1989 - January 20, 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
| 47 | Bruce Babbitt | January 22, 1993 - January 2, 2001 | Bill Clinton |
| 48 | Gale Ann Norton | January 31, 2001 - March 31, 2006 | George W. Bush |
| 49 | Dirk Kempthorne | May 26, 2006- | George W. Bush |
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